Physician Assisted Suicide Quotes:

Physician-assisted suicide and euthanasia have been profound ethical issues confronting doctors since the birth of Western medicine, more than 2,000 years ago.

- Ezekiel Emanuel

topic: Suicide, Doctors, Years, Ethical Issues, Western Medicine

We don't let animals suffer, so why humans?

- Stephen Hawking

topic: Animal, Suffering, Humans, Physician Assisted Suicide, Assisted Suicide

I think those who have a terminal illness and are in great pain should have the right to choose to end their own life, and those that help them should be free from prosecution.

- Stephen Hawking

source: "Stephen Hawking backs right to assisted suicide", www.foxnews.com. September 17, 2013.

topic: Pain, Thinking, Should Have, Terminal Illness, Terminal

First of all, in principle, I'm against physician-assisted suicide, and secondly, I believe it is the prerogative of the federal government to control drug rules. And the idea of using a controlled substance to end somebody's life is something I don't agree with. I can see the idea of using controlled substances to ease somebody's pain. That makes sense.

- George W. Bush

topic: Suicide, Pain, Believe, Prerogative, Physician Assisted Suicide

Americans tend to endorse the use of physician-assisted suicide and euthanasia when the question is abstract and hypothetical.

- Ezekiel Emanuel

topic: Suicide, Physicians, Use, Hypothetical, Physician Assisted Suicide

Patients who are being kept alive by technology and want to end their lives already have a recognized constitutional right to stop any and all medical interventions, from respirators to antibiotics. They do not need physician-assisted suicide or euthanasia.

- Ezekiel Emanuel

topic: Suicide, Technology, Physicians, Antibiotics, Physician Assisted Suicide

Any comprehensive doctrine, religious or secular, can be introduced into any political argument at any time, but I argue that people who do this should also present what they believe are public reasons for their argument. So their opinion is no longer just that of one particular party, but an opinion that all members of a society might reasonably agree to, not necessarily that they would agree to. What's important is that people give the kinds of reasons that can be understood and appraised apart from their particular comprehensive doctrines.

- John Rawls

topic: Religious, Party, Believe, Physician Assisted Suicide, Political Arguments

By establishing a social policy that keeps physician-assisted suicide and euthanasia illegal but recognizes exceptions, we would adopt the correct moral view: the onus of proving that everything had been tried and that the motivation and rationale were convincing would rest on those who wanted to end a life.

- Ezekiel Emanuel

topic: Suicide, Motivation, Views, Social Policy, Physician Assisted Suicide